Leon Panetta

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta confirmed Thursday that $488 billion U.S. in Pentagon budget cuts will affect his country’s plans to purchase the troubled F-35 joint strike fighter — which likely will threaten Canada’s timeline for acquiring the stealth fighter as well

The Pentagon will preview a budget proposal this week that begins to implement US$487-billion in spending cuts over the next decade by trimming the size of the military and canceling or scaling back some weapons programs

U.S. special forces swooped into Somalia on Wednesday and rescued an American and a Dane after a shootout with pirates holding them hostage, in a rare raid into the Horn of Africa nation to free foreign captives.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, scrambling to keep his U.S. presidential bid alive, accused the Obama administration on Sunday of over-reacting to a videotape that shows four Marines appearing to urinate on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

Iran's ultimate trump card in its current showdown with the international community isn't merely to close the Straits of Hormuz and choke off the world's oil supply – it is to secretly test a nuclear device

President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force with a new focus on cyber-warfare and unmanned drone missions.

President Barack Obama will join top Pentagon commanders to unveil a new “more realistic” vision for the U.S. military, including cuts to ground force numbers as a result of budget strains, officials familiar with the plans said on Wednesday